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Will you boycott gas?

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Dilla
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With recent spikes in gas prices, I have been asking my self, why isnt anyone bitching out these big corporations like exxon? I found the answer in our oil bathing government, where even a company like exxon can run the people's income into the ground with outrageous gas prices. So while exxon is making milions of dollars a day (and becoming the richest fortune 500 company around), we the people need to be doing something.

So next time you go to the gas pump, dont go to Exxon or Mobil, go to a smaller station if you can. And if you really must go to a monopolizing corporation for your gas, only get about $10 in gas.
Only get $10 in gas because of the supply and demmand factor. This is because you dont want to gas companies to seel their gas in bullk, showing them that the gas is not in such great demand, making the price go down.

because i am sick of getting gouged(sp) by bastard corporations puckering up to bush's ass.
Apr 24 2006 9:44PM
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Tasche
Posts: 5422 - Karma: 99
Why dont you boycott Wall mart they are huge compared to oil companies.

Financally wall mart is the fourth biggest country stuff that in you pipe.
Apr 24 2006 11:32PM
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Daniel.
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im not guyuna boycott it, but im guna purchase a siphon thingy or watevr so i steal the gas out of yourn dumb fuckin fag bush haters tanks nd hten sell it for more so u can hate me, Our government is not te problem, just the people it rules, like you ignorant fucks
Apr 24 2006 11:32PM
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japanada
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my buddy flicks of "the wall" everytime we pass it. After reading about them and how they treat workers i can see y.
Apr 24 2006 11:37PM
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Ryno
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thats it????

Wack...i would think like 30 bil
Apr 24 2006 11:44PM
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Cam
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well that was just the quarter, and maybe it was 30bill i can't remember...either way its still alot of money
Apr 24 2006 11:48PM
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Tasche
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Maby people shold be less woried about the price of gas and more concerned that our goverment spends 600 billion dollars a year on defence when the next closest nation china spends less than 10 billion.
Apr 24 2006 11:48PM
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Cam
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this is so true...and that is where alot of fuel goes...look how much fighter jets use
Apr 24 2006 11:50PM
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Ryno
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Well i was just thinking that is they made 30 million litres of gas a quatar (im assuming that roughly a good estimate) and they droped the price a 1c or they sell 15 milllion litres and drop the price 2c.



just doesnt seem like they have the room
Apr 24 2006 11:50PM
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Tasche
Posts: 5422 - Karma: 99
good point. An F-16 from colorado to iraq will burn more gas than an average family will use in a year.
Apr 24 2006 11:51PM
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Paul-o-Rama
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im down ima ride my bike to school every day
Apr 24 2006 11:53PM
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switchskier88
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its physically impossible for me to boycott gas and its probably the same for a lot of people, i guess i could get up at 4 and the morning and bike 30 miles to work, but it probably wouldnt work
Apr 24 2006 11:54PM
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Greenish
Posts: 2047 - Karma: 367
everyones gunna just keep buying, we need our cars too much, walking sucks ass
Apr 24 2006 11:58PM
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nickmcnutt
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sounds convenient
Apr 25 2006 12:43AM
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Chris862
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i love my bike. i work two jobs during the summer, both which are 10-15 min. bike ride from home and between each other. its dope, i love my bike.
Apr 25 2006 1:13AM
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Logchucker
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Lets fundamentally change tthe foundation of the US economy overnight, everyone can do that its easy
Apr 25 2006 1:21AM
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Scratch*my*Back
Posts: 8334 - Karma: 160
i will not boycott gas. and gas is an inelastic industry and will therefore take over the world.
the end.
Apr 25 2006 2:54AM
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Logchucker
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Aight soe hers some economics of the situation
New Skis-400 bucks
New bindings-200 Bucks
New JAcket-200
New pants-150
New Helmet-60
Poles- 70
boots- 200
(all prices just numbers made up
pass 400
gas for 3000 Miles@ 25 MPG
$334

DO you really Need a new Jacket and PAnts?
Apr 25 2006 3:26AM
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Logchucker
Posts: 1508 - Karma: 16
so increase in gas mean you don't get new ski pants this year
Apr 25 2006 3:34AM
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danS
Posts: 1525 - Karma: 163
the only goal in a economy of capitalism is to make as much money as you can, fair doesnt fit in there. not to mention capatilism is whats causing globalization, and a million other problems in our society. i dont know all that much but the world is pretty fucked in 9 million different ways so enjoy whats beautiful.
Apr 25 2006 4:50AM
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DanDaSwede
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Since The united states of america burn close to 25-30% of all the oil and gas that are being used in the world every year. It would really help to stop global warming if you just stoped youre blood for oil politic and started to do think of youre enviorment. And the rest of the world.
Apr 25 2006 5:16AM
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will987654321
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$150,000 A DAY. Maybe i'm alone on this, but i dont think anyone can actually earn that much money.
Apr 25 2006 5:59AM
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soulskier
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i wont, my dad is in the gas business
my grandpa owns the biggest gas company in northern michigan
Apr 25 2006 8:04AM
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DanDaSwede
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"i wont, my dad is in the gas business
my grandpa owns the biggest gas company in northern michigan"


And you sounds like a selvish little brat.
Apr 25 2006 8:58AM
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soulskier
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i'm not being selfish, i'm simply pointing out the fact that i wouldnt boycott gas
when your around gas company work all your life you know the true facts, not the ones that people assume. people think gas prices are high because of gas companies. some of it is. i get tired of people bitching and complaining about gas prices, most of the price is tax from the GOVERNMENT!!
Apr 25 2006 9:03AM
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manwiththemetalleg
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Stop making a fuss about prices, i pay up to $9 a gallon in the UK (£5) and its still going up.
Apr 25 2006 9:23AM
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Norred
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$10 worth of gas would last me a day.
Apr 25 2006 10:35AM
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mnjib
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i wont be driving as much as i normaly do i got a road bike so i think i will start using that to get around. i am also going to look into E85 and see if my car can run on that its about 60 cents cheeper then normal gas.
Apr 25 2006 11:06AM
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ThisAngelicRage
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we should be investing in the expansion of public transportation.
Apr 25 2006 11:21AM
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Scratch*my*Back
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we have a great public transit system here. everyone uses it it's great.
Apr 25 2006 11:23AM
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Dilla
Posts: 6447 - Karma: 106
i actually do boycott wal mart, and it was recently said that Exxon is richer than Wal Mart, so you can stuff THAT in your pipe.
Apr 25 2006 1:43PM
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soulskier
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wal mart is a country?
Apr 25 2006 1:48PM
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norbastradamus
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yah i definetly wouldnt, i need my car to get to work and at work, so without it i would have no money at all
Apr 25 2006 2:15PM
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Tasche
Posts: 5422 - Karma: 99
Its called capitalism thats how it works. If you get rich and are lucky then you are allould to make a shit load of money. If you want to live in a country where the ammount of money is restricted go to China or sweeden where any ammount over 200,000 yearly is taxed 97%.

Ya I knows its a day you fucker. Bill gates makes 4mill everytime he goes to bed. But everyone likes him. He price gouges and has a monopoly.
Apr 25 2006 2:53PM
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Tasche
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I dont know where the fuck you are getting your information but Exxon is about 1/4 the size of Wall mart. My source is "The world in figures" by Keeshore Malbubani. Exxon my show a higher profit but they defentally do not have a larger grose income.
Apr 25 2006 2:56PM
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Tasche
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I wall mart were a country then financially they would be the 4th most groseing country.
Apr 25 2006 2:57PM
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Ski-hobo
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holy shit, let me find the fortune 500 list, just to settle this
Apr 25 2006 3:00PM
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Capt.Flannel
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haha what did you say? IF WALMART maybe?
Apr 25 2006 3:01PM
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Ski-hobo
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20006 list

# Citigroup
# General Electric
# Bank of America
# American Intl Group
# HSBC Group
# ExxonMobil
# Royal Dutch/Shell Group
# BP
# JPMorgan Chase
# UBS
# ING Group
# Toyota Motor
# Wal-Mart Stores
Apr 25 2006 3:02PM
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Tasche
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are you making fun of me for not typing an F.


Well here is an F for ya

Fuck you.
Apr 25 2006 3:10PM
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Tasche
Posts: 5422 - Karma: 99
you got me I can admit when Im wrong my book was published in 2001 so thats what the info says.
Apr 25 2006 3:13PM
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STAUSS
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hah darkfranchised just got PNWD

but seriously, we cant keep living the way we are... we will run the country and more importantly the world into the ground. when they start drilling in alaska is when i start fire bombing mobils and exxons.
Apr 25 2006 3:45PM
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Dilla
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but you can look into alternative suel sources like WVO or using public transit to get to and from work.
Apr 25 2006 5:45PM
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[fisher]
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This is the truth NO MATTER how the gas prices go, people will still buy gas...
Apr 25 2006 5:48PM
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Dilla
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its sad that that is what it has come down to, but thats how it is unless we start protesting and boycotting gas comapnies by switching to alternative fuels. It is going to happen sooner or later, why not make it now?
Apr 25 2006 5:50PM
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Static
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sounds like an awesome plan, tell your mom and dad I want my hydrogen powered truck by this weekend.
Apr 25 2006 6:02PM
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will987654321
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maybe what i shouldve said is that someone shouldn't be able to earn 150,000 a day. call me a socialist or whatever, but i think what they have in sweden is a pretty sweet deal. i would never live in china because of the human rights problems, and i'll never say that communism is the way to go, but there are definitely problems with capitalism, and we need some kind of reasonable government regulation on things like this. we have to get away from the "grab much too much, or you'll get nothing at all" mentality. that quote is from Kurt Vonnegut.
Apr 25 2006 7:04PM
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Dilla
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im not saying hydrogen.
like ive said multiple times in this thread, that Vegetable oil is a renewable, reused, clean burning fuel that doesnt cost anything and takes profit away from the oil companies
Apr 25 2006 7:19PM
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Tasche
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Alternative fuels like say hydrogen? Too bad hydrogen is mostly produced from crude oil and natural gas. So the petroleum companies would just make more money.

There is research going on with an alge that creates hydrogen but currently you you need a field about a mile across to fuel a car for an year.

Also I dont really want to drive a hydrogen car because they have a habbit of violently expolding.

Ethonal made from corn is another solution but again the problem becomes supply and demand. You woulden be able to supply the need.

There are a lot of smart people out there and none of them have found a viable solution to petroleum. If they did it would be marketed and sold.

The key to saving money is conserving and using a combination of technologies.

Lets put it this way according to Dr. Vankirk, head of the petroleum engineering department at CSM, If a perfect system of absolute energy were to be created tomorrow it would take 50 years before all the infostructure and shipping would be changed over. Another 100 before cars were all running on this fuel world wide.

So get use to petroleum 4 or even 5 dollars at the pump is reasonable and quite a deal. If you cant afford it ride the bus or as I call it the atrium for losers.
Apr 26 2006 12:49AM
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Tasche
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The problem is that it all sounds good on paper but it doesnt work. "If it is outlawed only outlaws will survive". If there are outrageous taxes then people will find ways around them legal or not.

Making 150,000 dollars a day is his right and the position he put him self in. We have a progressive tax in america so as his money increases so does his taxes.

Again why are you worried about one man making about 54 million a year when our goverment is spending 600 billion in defence alone. More than half of the national budget. Woulden you rather have some of that money go into helping people in out own country instead of fire bombing the shit out of some arab city?
Apr 26 2006 12:56AM
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Logchucker
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Its nice to go actually learn this shit aint it
Apr 26 2006 12:58AM
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